Friday | Planning a Trip to the Mountains; September Journal Flip Through

The first Friday in October is already here! Every month zooms by these days but Octobers seem to end especially quickly. I’m reminding myself that it’s only the fourth and still – we’re that much closer to the end of the month! But we’re going to try to soak in the season this weekend by heading up to the mountains.

Prepping for Leaf Peeping:

As you can see in my opening picture, the foliage is creeping into my part of the state. Amazingly, it has peaked just a little further north, as reported by our state’s Fall Foliage Tracker. Our plan on Sunday morning is to wake up early, have a quick snack, pack up breakfasts and lunches, and hit the road. We typically head into the White Mountains, which is just shy of peak. If we’re dissatisfied by the color, we’ll head all the way into the Great North Woods, which is at peak. I am so excited!!

Maybe I’m mostly excited about the food? Matthew and I tend to always pack up the same thing for this trip: asiago bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon. We almost never splurge on it (because of the price and punch of fat) throughout the year, but we each pack up two: one for breakfast and one for lunch. I’ll also be boiling a big pot of espresso for giant lattes in thermoses. The kids aren’t into the bagels, so we’ll find a bunch of stuff that’s more up their alley for meals and snacks.

And for additional entertainment, I’ll be making an extra effort over the next couple of days to prep my knitting for this trip. I’m about two rows away from separating the sleeves from the body of my Cloudesley sweater and then the knitting won’t require as much careful counting and will be perfect for car knitting and easy to pick up/put down when I need to get something for the kiddos. Maybe next week I’ll be able to share a picture of my (slow) progress.

Can you tell I’m excited about Sunday’s drive??

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YouTube Videos:

I published two new videos this week! In this one, I briefly introduced myself and flipped through my September journal pages:

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And if you don’t want to watch the whole video above and just want to see my journal pages, then I also published this short for you:

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My Saturday will be a fairly typical one: work at the library, cooking and cleaning; but I’ll also be prepping for this road trip and buzzing with excitement about what’s to come. How about you? Do you have any plans for the weekend?

Whatever your weekend brings, I hope you find time to focus on what you need.